Student gets 15 years for Youtube bomb video

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A student was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for uploading a 12 minute bomb-making video to Youtube.

Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, an Egyptian student, was studying at the University of South Florida when he was arrested. Police who pulled him over allegedly found explosives in his car, though this charge was subsequently dropped as part of a plea agreement in June 2008.

When authorities searched Mohamed’s laptop, they found a 12 minute video which contained a demonstration of how to turn a Wal-Mart remote controlled toy car into a detonator for a bomb. The suspect’s voice narrated the video in Arabic. The video had been posted to Youtube and viewed hundreds of times.{ad}

Doing himself no favours, Mohammed had claimed in court that he intended the video to be used by enemies of the United States, which he claimed was a ‘vile nation’.

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Everich

for hating us so much they sure do like our schools

Esoom Yale

>United States, which he claimed was a ‘vile nation’.
He obviously has never been to his homeland then, because Egypt is the vilest of nations – the streets are full of rubbish, abused and half-dead (or worse) animals are everywhere, and way too many the prople are low life, rip-off merchants.

Esoom Yale

Good riddance to another terrorist – hope you drop the soap often !!!

hodar

I love his defence …. ‘freedom of speech’.
In order to impose his dictatorship of Islam, he is willing to kill people indiscriminately. Terrorists are too cowardly to attack political or military targets. When they are attacking or beheading an unarmed and immobilized person, they are ruthless animals. They are hell on unarmed men, women and children – but refuse to engage against an army. They surrender quickly and beg forgiveness when engaged in battle – and demand mercy that they refuse to give their prisoners.
My only regret is that the ‘taxpayer’ will have to pay to keep this animal housed, provided with medical treatment, food and entertainment. I tire of treating these animals with greater care, concern and mercy than they either show each other, or those they have imprisoned.
The entire reason we have Geneva Convention was to reach an aggreement as to how combatants would be treated. We agreed to treat our German POWs in one manner, and conversely Germany agreed to treat Allied POWs similarly. The Geneva convention DOES NOT include protective status for Insurgents, or illegal combatants (explicitly stated in the treaty). They can be summarily executed, and in previous wars – they were.
However, out enemy in this was does not recognize the Geneva Convention – yet we are expected to honor it. It’s like getting in a fight where I promise not to hit you in the face, or below the belt – and my opponent makes no such agreement. As such, they are in a much more powerful position to wage war, for we have limits and they have none. They have already demonstrated the willingness to kill innocents, use Chemical Warfare, and would nuke us if they had the capability.
How do you reason with a group of people without honor, without morals, who do not care whom they kill – who consider you an animal. A people who desire to enslave or kill you; and they really don’t care which. They have no hesistation to kill children, attack hospitals, or blow up school buses. The choice is simply surrender unconditionally or fight. There is really no choice but to fight, convert to Islam and submit to the will of your Caliph, or die.

bobthedog

I sympathise with the Free Speech argument – and God knows, this country is becoming more and more of a Police State, but this arse got off light…
Everything others have said about this hypocritical puke’s intent to come here and use the sacred Freedom Of Speech argument to justify his ADMITTED terrorist intent is spot on.
That said, maybe the US should stop CREATING MORE TERRORISTS through ignorant and oppressive policies: there is something to be said for treating the West’s part of the Cause of terrorism as well as for dealing with terrorist shites like this jimbo as harshly as they deserve to be dealt with.
All round, he deserves what he got – and we deserve what we’ll get if we don’t shape up politically. Remember: the vast majority of the 9/11 highjackers were from our dear oil-producing “ALLY,” Saudi Arabia…